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Discrimination Properly Defined

It used to be that if we used discrimination, this meant we had the ability to discern between things, to judge between them, to make an informed choice. Today while looking up the word on the web, I found perhaps two positive definitions to describe discrimination, one of which I have posted here. The rest read like an Equal Opportunity statement.
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From the Web: Discrimination is the mental faculty of differentiation, of making an exact distinction between things in mind and in action, the power of accurately observing differences, for example, between right and wrong. Discrimination, which is both acute and discerning, is the faculty that governs right choice. Discrimination is doing the right thing next.
When we allow the media or other agencies to redefine our terms, we allow them to take away from our general life experience, and to draw us into their agenda. Don’t think it’s true? How many times have you felt the need to express your regret for saying something that is not “politically correct”? Why would anyone but a politician really need to be politically correct? But hasn’t the fear of offending others made us silent when it would help immensely if we could once more freely engage in open discourse without fear of reprisals?
Here are a few other examples of words or phrases that have been redefined in order to fit with a particular political purpose:
Baby became zygote, tissue, embryo, and fetus (probably an incomplete list).
Gay became lesbian or homosexual.
Agenda became a sinister plan, usually political
Liberal became a quasi-political party.
Conservative became a quasi-political party.
Morality became a nasty word.
Faith became a political agenda.
What other words or phrases have been appropriated by special interests and redefined so that we will be put in a box or a category if we use them? I’m sure we could all add to the list.
It makes one stop to wonder.
Or if it doesn’t, perhaps it should…